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Glynis Johns
Glynis Margaret Payne Johns was a British actress, singer, and centenarian. In a career exceeding seven decades on stage and screen, Johns appeared in more than 60 films and 30 plays. She received various accolades throughout her career, including a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. Before her death at…
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entertainment · British actress (1923–2024) · pianist · singer · film actor · stage actor · musician · actor · ballerina · television actor · dancer · also Glynis Johns, Glynis John, Glynnis Johns, Johns
Born 5 October 1923 · Died 4 January 2024 · Q272579
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Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts. My father and I have only ever worked in one picture together – that was Halfway House – and the producer was casting a father and daughter. Perhaps it was natural that he chose us, but my father did not get me that job, neither did I get him his.
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I like being a woman, and it may be small‐minded of me, but I also like being given flowers, having the door opened for me, being cherished by a man. And a woman should look after a man, mother him. It's give and take. It evens out. I'm a complete romantic – and very happy to be one.
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2024· 14 entries
The Sun: Glynis Johns death updates — Mary Poppins actress who first sang Send in the Clowns dead at 100 as tributes pour in
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Yahoo: Glynis Johns, best known for role in ‘Mary Poppins’ as Mrs. Winifred Banks, dies at 100
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San Diego Union-Tribune: Glynis Johns, ‘Mary Poppins’ star who first sang Sondheim’s ‘Send in the Clowns,’ dies at 100
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Forbes: Glynis Johns Dead: The ‘Mary Poppins’ Actress Was 100
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New York Daily News: Glynis Johns, known for ‘A Little Night Music’ and ‘Mary Poppins,’ dead at 100
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Northcountrypublicradio.org: British actress Glynis Johns, who played Mrs. Banks in 'Mary Poppins,' is dead at 100
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Yahoo: Glynis Johns, Tony winner and 'Mary Poppins' actor, dies at 100
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Page Six: Glynis Johns, who starred in ‘Mary Poppins,’ dead at 100
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Died 2024-01-04.
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“For me, most relationships with men have been like pregnancies – they last only nine months. One of my marriages lated only three months. It wasn't a marriage at all but a serious mistake.”
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“Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts. My father and I have only ever worked in one picture together – that was Halfway House – and the producer was casting a father and daughter. Perhaps it was natural that he chose us, but my father did not get me that job, neither did I get him his.”
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“I always said that 'Send In The Clowns' was the best gift I was ever given. But I've always thought before I decide I don't want to do theater anymore, I'd like to have a vehicle that gave me the scope to do something beautiful. Maybe this is it.”
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“In classical theatre in Europe, everybody plays all kinds of parts. Juliets go on to play the Nurses; they don't want to play Juliet again. I think we've got to remember to grab onto our perks, whatever is the good thing about each age. Each stage of life should be a progression.”
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“I like being a woman, and it may be small‐minded of me, but I also like being given flowers, having the door opened for me, being cherished by a man. And a woman should look after a man, mother him. It's give and take. It evens out. I'm a complete romantic – and very happy to be one.”
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2021· 1 entry
With the death of Betty White, she became the oldest living Disney Legend
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2020· 1 entry
Johns became the oldest living Academy Award nominee in any acting category
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2007· 1 entry
From a heart attack during cancer treatment
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “The Frances Audio Collection”.
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2004· 1 entry
Johns made a surprise guest appearance when a clip of The Court Jester was shown on screen
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Disney Legends (1998).
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Johns was named a Disney legend in the film category
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1991· 1 entry
Johns returned to A Little Night Music aged 68, this time playing Madame Armfeldt, the mother of her original character Desiree, with Gordon Davidson directing at the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre in Los Angeles
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1988· 1 entry
Johns provided the voice for Miss Grimwood, proprietor of Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, in Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School
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1985· 1 entry
Johns played Bridget O'Hara in the episode "Sing a Song of Murder" of CBS's crime drama television series Murder, She Wrote, working again with Angela Lansbury
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1982· 1 entry
Was cast as Laura Fitzpatrick Morgan in the American-British biographical television film Little Gloria
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1981· 1 entry
And Bargain for Frances and Other Frances Stories in 1984
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1978· 1 entry
Followed by her fourth husband, Elliott Arnold, in 1980, her first husband, Anthony Forwood, in 1988, and her second husband, David Foster, in 2010
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1973· 5 entries
Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical for A Little Night Music (1973).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for A Little Night Music (1973).
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Was rushed to hospital for emergency treatment of an intestinal infection
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“Acting is my highest form of intelligence, the time when I use the best part of my brain. I was always told, by my married friends, for example, that I could apply that intelligence to something else, some other aspect of living, but I can”
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Johns was in the original cast of A Little Night Music, written by Stephen Sondheim, which premiered on 25 February at the Shubert Theatre in New York City
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1972· 1 entry
And 1973, Johns narrated several fairy tales and other children's classics for Caedmon Records, the record label imprints of HarperCollins Publishers
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1971· 1 entry
Johns told BBC Cymru Wales that a national theatre in Wales would be a positive addition to the country, because "Welsh people
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1967· 1 entry
Appeared in four episodes of the Batman television series as villainess Lady Penelope Peasoup, one-half of the evil duo with Rudy Vallée as her brother Lord Marmaduke Ffogg
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1966· 1 entry
To star alongside Keith Michell in The King's Mare at the Garrick Theatre, in which she played Anne of Cleves and Michell King Henry VIII
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1965· 2 entries
Awarded Laurel Awards for Mary Poppins (1965).
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When CBS reran the series as a summer replacement for The Lucy Show, Glynis ranked number six in the Nielsen ratings
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1964· 1 entry
"happy as a lark at getting chained to a lamp post for the cause
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1962· 1 entry
Johns starred as a nun on Dr
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1960· 1 entry
Johns starred as Clarissa Hailsham-Brown in Godfrey Grayson's mystery film The Spider's Web, a screen adaptation of the eponymous 1954 play by Agatha Christie, and for which American author Matthew Bunson wrote, "Despite
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1956· 2 entries
To again play the title role, this time in a Broadway revival production of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara
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“I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen,”
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1955· 1 entry
Stated "I was relaxed, happy, with little to do and I suppose I simply didn't burn up as much energy as usual
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1954· 1 entry
Johns was one of five judges to oversee the finals of the National Bathing Beauty Contest in Morecambe, England, where Pat Butler was declared the winner
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1952· 4 entries
Johns became fourteen pounds (6
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With Fletcher Markle's Emmy Award-winning series Little Women
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And took on starring roles in such films as The Sword and the Rose (1953), The Weak and the Wicked (1954), Mad About Men (1954), The Court Jester (1955), The Sundowners (1960), The Cabinet of Caligari (1962), The Chapman
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When given the title role in five productions of the Enid Bagnold comedy Gertie
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1946· 1 entry
"I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen," She found her stardom in 1940s Britain (wherein her "glistening blue eyes and perfect comic timing made her British c
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1943· 1 entry
I'll See You Again in 1944, and Fools Rush In in 1946
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1942· 1 entry
Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for 49th Parallel (1942).
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1940· 1 entry
With Under Your Hat, in which she played Winnie, a supporting character to Jack Hulbert's Jack Millett and Cicely Courtneidge's Kay Millett in this musical comedy spy film
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1938· 1 entry
At the age of 14 with the eponymous film adaptation of Winifred Holtby's novel South Riding, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by Victor Saville, in which she played Midge Carne, the daughter of aspiring politicia
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1935· 1 entry
Johns played Ursula in Buckie's Bears; this production lasted from 27 December 1935 to 11 January 1936 at the Garrick Theatre
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1931· 1 entry
At the age of eight, Johns was cast as Sonia Kuman in Elmer Rice's Judgement Day at the Phoenix Theatre in London
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-10-05.
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